Arad
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Named at Numbers 21:1 in “the king of Arad”, the Canaanite who lives in the South. Hearing that Israel is coming by the way of Atharim, the king fights against Israel and takes some of them captive. Numbers 33:40 says the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. Judges 1:16 says that the children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, and lived with the people; the Korean Revised Version says that Moses’ father-in-law was a Kenite.
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- JDG 1:16, engwebp
16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
- JOS 12:7–24, engwebp
7These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
8in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
9the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
10the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
11the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
14the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
16the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
17the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
19the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
20the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
21the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
22the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
23the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
24the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
- NUM 21:1–3, engwebp
1The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
2Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
3The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.
- NUM 33:37–40, engwebp
37They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
38Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
39Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.
40The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Arad 1” by name and 3 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Tel Arad (confidence 370 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.
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- Tel Arad
OpenBible.info confidence 370 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.28083, 35.125
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Arad 1” (CC BY 4.0) - Tel Malhata
OpenBible.info confidence 236 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.2172, 35.0258
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Arad 1” (CC BY 4.0)
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The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Arad (place-arad) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/arad Current wording: Named at Numbers 21:1 in “the king of Arad”, the Canaanite who lives in the South. Hearing that Israel is coming by the way of Atharim, the king fights against Israel and takes some of them captive. Numbers 33:40 says the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. Judges 1:16 says that the children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, and lived with the people; the Korean Revised Version says that Moses’ father-in-law was a Kenite. Cited evidence: JDG 1:16, engwebp / JOS 12:7–24, engwebp / NUM 21:1–3, engwebp / NUM 33:37–40, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.